Summary

One of sixty-nine black and white and sepia photographs in a bound album [six of which are loose] taken by A.J. Campbell during a Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria expedition to Kent Group of islands, Bass Strait in 1890. The album also includes a map of Kent Group in the inside front cover and numerous contemporary newspaper clippings relating to the expedition.

Description of Content

View of Rodondo Island from the deck of the ship SS Despatch. Photograph taken by Archibald J. Campbell during a scientific expedition by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria to Kent Group of islands, Bass Strait, 1890. The 'Despatch' was carrying the party to the islands having departed Port Melbourne in December of that year.

Physical Description

Black and white photograph

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